Eliphas Levi Quotes
The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
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When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.
